Richard Stallman

Richard Matthew Stallman, a.k.a. RMS, (born March 16, 1953) is the founder of the free software movement, the GNU project, and the Free Software Foundation. He is also a renowned hacker, whose major accomplishments include GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, and the GNU Debugger. He is also the author of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL), the most widely-used free software license, which pioneered the concept of the copyleft.

Recognition

Stallman has received numerous prizes and awards for his work, amongst them:

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• 1990: MacArthur Fellowship
• 1991: The Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award "For pioneering work in the development of ... EMACS"
• 1996: Honorary doctorate from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology
• 1998: Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award
• 1999: Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award
• 2001: Second honorary doctorate, from the University of Glasgow
• 2001: The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award for Social/Economic Well-Being (武田研究奨励賞)
• 2002: National Academy of Engineering membership
• 2003: Third honorary doctorate, from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• 2004: Fourth honorary doctorate, from the Universidad Nacional de Salta. http://bo.unsa.edu.ar/cs/R2004/R-CS-2004-0204.html
• 2004: Honorary professorship, from the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería del Perú.